Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> said:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Chad Schwartz wrote:
> > Because at this point, the simple upgrade of a kernel, quite literally,
> > breaks behavior, compared to every single other UNIX out there. (And some
> > programs my very well DEPEND upon mount returning an error if an FS is
> > already mounted.
> Can somebody show _one_ _example_ _of_ _that_? I admit that it's possible,
> but could somebody actually show such a program?
Program... no, I ain't a program (yet?). But I and my chronic distypia
would get this machine into horrible messes if allowed to mount one
filesystem over another, willy-nilly.
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